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Now that .NET 4 and VS 2010 are out, at least in Beta, I thought it would be a good time to show off some of the new features that are applicable to Office development.  In this first screencast I will cover something new to C# specifically, optional paramters, as well as Lambda…

Now that .NET 4 and VS 2010 are out, at least in Beta, I thought it would be a good time to show off some of the new features that are applicable to Office development.  In this second (see the first one here) screencast I will cover a new feature of Visual Studio 2010 for Office…

Join Danny Shih as he demonstrates using the range partitioner feature.  Parallel.For is great, but being a general solution, it does not perform optimally for certain specific scenarios, such as when there are a ton of iterations and very little work per iteration.  In these cases,…

This week on MSDN Radio, John Stallo and Jay Schmelzer from the Microsoft Visual Studio team will talk about LightSwitch—a new tool that allows you to easily and quickly build high-quality business applications for the desktop, the web, and the cloud. This MSDN Radio is hosted by  Mithun…

One of the big initiatives for Visual Studio 2010 was to incorporate the community directly into the IDE itself and the extension manager was created to achieve just that. This newcomer to VS allows the user to consume extensions posted to the Visual Studio Gallery right from within VS itself. It…

We talk with Scott Guthrie about Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC), and other up and coming topics in the technology space. Scott’s passion for software and developer tools has made him a leader in providing developers with what they need to build…

Bugs suck and debugging is hard! Did you take a class on debugging in college? Of course not. You've had to learn debugging by trial and error, with lots of emphasis on the error. Another question: have you read the Microsoft Visual Studio debugger documentation? Again, doubtful. According to the…

/v Martin Pamdeth, ALM Solution Specialist, Microsoft Danmark Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/martinpa Visual Studio 2010 info:http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/da-dk/

Join Danny Shih as he demonstrates how to use the Task Parallel Library (TPL) to refactor sequential "for" loops so that they execute in parallel.  He’ll also cover breaking out of parallelized loops.Collections and related constructs are new with .NET4 and Visual Studio…

I used to work for a company who's core application, I was told, had over 40,000 unit tests (no joke). I asked them if they had a CI process and ran those tests at every build. The answer I was given was "no" because "running a build with that many tests takes way too long to…